If you’ve been using Ares as long as I have, then you know how frustrating it is when you can’t connect to the network. Unfortunately this has been happening a lot more than normal recently. It is happening so much, in fact, that I started to wonder whether the Ares network was broken. A quick search on Google will show that I was not the only one.

Like many others, I went over to Official Ares and downloaded one of the newer versions of Ares. Freshening your client like this is worth doing every year or so anyway, so this wasn’t too much of a hassle in the grand scheme of things.

For a while the client I chose – Ares Vista – worked like a dream. As always, I was asking myself why I haven’t done this sooner! After a while though, the connectivity problems returned.

Another Google search revealed again that I was not the only one feeling left out of the party.

It was on this Google search that I started to see the occasional mention of an application called AresConnect. I had never heard of AresConnect before so my initial instincts were to just ignore it. As I read more, so the name cropped up more frequently. I started to take note, I decided to check it out. According to the website, AresConnect was designed to solve exactly the problems with connectivity. Willing to give anything a shot by this point, I downloaded and installed.

Wow. AresConnect work straight away, and fixed precisely the Problems I was having. It’s early days yet, but after a week or so of uninterrupted, instant connectivity, I’m started to think that my problems have finally gone away.